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After 13 Months, Steve Miller DVD Still Ranks #15 on Amazon.com's Concert Boxed Set Chart The high-definition, 32-camera concert film, STEVE MILLER BAND: LIVE IN CHICAGO came out on DVD on May 20, 2008. In its initial week, it topped the best-selling music and concert DVD lists for Amazon.com and Billboard. In its second week, it ranked #10 on the Billboard Top Music Video chart. On June 23, 2009 (in its 13th month of release release) it still ranked #15 at Amazon.com among music video and concert boxed sets.
Fully 87% of those reviewing it through Mar. 18, 2009 at Amazon.com gave it five stars out of a possible five (with another 10% rating it four stars).
Blue Rider provided financing for it and for concert films by Godsmack, Smashing Pumpkins and Nickelback to Coming Home Studios. Blue Rider founders Walter Josten and Jeff Geoffray serve as executive producers on all four films.
Miller supported the DVD with a 39-city Summer 2008 tour.Flawless Grosses $6,509,054 Worldwide, Does Well on DVD Blue Rider Bridge Loans financed the British thriller Flawless, in which Michael Caine and Demi Moore pull off a brilliant corporate diamond heist in 1960s London. After playing for 12 weeks in Spain, the caper flick had grossed $2,295,114.
Flawless opened in North America at 35 theatres on March 28 and grossed $181,910 in its initial three-day weekend, for a very healthy per-screen average of $5,197. It ranked #37 among the top 50 theatrical releases from March 28-March 30.
In its 16th week in release (through July 17) it had grossed $1,200,234 in North America, rated #88 among the movies currently in theatres and was still showing on three screens.
Through May 31, 2009, its foreign gross in 21 countries was $5,308,820, and its worldwide total (not counting DVD) was $6,509,054. In its first 84 days playing in Brazil (Apr. 11-June 22, 2008), Flawless grossed $1,518,622. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it grossed $305,535 in its first 10 days on Mexican screens, ranking #10 among all films playing there; after five months it had brought in $1,000,041. It opened in Iceland on June 11 and in Croatia on Sept. 18 was scheduled to bow in France and several former French territories at a date yet to be determined. On June 14, 2009 it was still screening in Venezuela, where it had grossed $166,043 in 16 days.
Flawless came out on DVD on June 3, 2008. On July 20, 2008, it had been out on video for seven weeks and ranked #40 in rentals of all films currently on video/DVD. Through June 23, 2009, after just over one year of release, the DVD ranked #68 on Amazon's chart of British Mystery and Suspense films.
As of August 20, 2008, according to The Movie Times, Flawless rates #114 in boxoffice receipts among the 223 films released in the U.S. this year.Outlander Grosses $4,480,586 Worldwide, Ranks #8 in U.S. Rentals Blue Rider funded Bridge Financing for the $42-million sci-fi creature adventure Outlander, whose US distributor is The Weinstein Company. It stars Jim Caviezel as a space visitor who crash-lands into a seventh-century Norwegian Viking village, unwittingly bringing with him a murderous monster.
On May 30, 2009, Outlander ranked #8 in U.S. on Billboard's chart of DVD rentals. And on June 10 it was #8 on the Video Business Limited Theatrical Film DVD Rental chart. At Amazon.com, on June 23, it ranked #66 among Fantasy and Science Fiction DVDs.
As of June 14, 2009, Outlander had grossed $4,273,898 worldwide. It brought in $4,314,583 in 17 overseas territories, including $2,685,324 in Spain in two months, $294,984 during five weeks in Thailand, $280,325 in three weeks in Kuwait, $265,755 in 25 days in Malaysia, $262,436 in 25 days in the UAE and $138,535 after eight weeks--and still playing--in Turkey.
It opened in North America on 81 screens on Jan. 23, 2009. On March 12 (in week eight) it was still playing on 46 North American screens, ranked #72 among films in theatres and had grossed $166,003.Not Forgotten in Eighth Week on U.S. Screens The thriller Not Forgotten, executive produced by Jeff Geoffray and Walter Josten and bridge financed and recipient of a collateral shortfall loan from Blue Rider--and starring Simon Baker, Paz Vega and Claire Forlani--opened on May 15 on four screens in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin.
It brought in $33,576 in its first three days of release, ranking #60 at the U.S. box office. As of June 18, after eight weeks in theatres, the film had grossed $53,744, was still playing on one North American screen.
More than 76% of the first viewers who rated it at the Internet Movie Database gave it thumbs-up, with 41% rating it a perfect 10. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a fine suspense drama."Who's Your Caddy Grosses $15.7 million on Screens and DVD Who's Your Caddy had grossed $5,694,308 in North American theatres after 11 weeks of release. It opened as the 10th-rated film of the week, at 1,019 theatres, grossing $2.8 million. Blue Rider was the bridge financier for this zany golf comedy. After its sixth week in release (Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008), the DVD had grossed $10.0 million in rental revenues and ranked #44 in the U.S. In its opening week on DVD it ranked #19, grossing $2.41 million. Who's Your Caddy played at the June 23, 2007 Urbanworld Film Festival.
Combining domestic boxoffice and DVD rentals, Who's Your Caddy had a gross of $15.7 million. In its 18th month of release (as of June 23, 2009), the DVD ranked #74 on Amazon's list of best-selling urban comedies.Asylum Ranks High in Amazon.com Categories Asylum, a romantic thriller starring Hugh Bonneville, Ian McKellen, Martin Csokas and the late Natasha Richardson (who won Best Actress at the 2005 Evening Standard British Film Awards for this movie) and directed by David Mackenzie (who took a top Berlin Film Festival award for it) received bridge financing from Blue Rider.
At Amazon.com, as of June 23, 2009, the DVD rated #31 in Irish Art House DVDs, #73 among Crumbling Marriage films and #80 in the Romance DVD category.
It grossed $1,644,363 worldwide, including $1,268,960 in 17 foreign markets--doing best in Russia ($519,857) and Italy ($385,847). It grossed $374,903 in a 14-week U.S. run (in up to 55 theatres).
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